Arizona was ranked 10th with 3 losses, but one of those was in the Pac-12 title game and the PSC apparently didn't hold that against them. Query whether we'd have ended ahead of them if we'd been 10-2. It might've depended on who we beat and lost to: we had 2 opponents in common with Arizona; U of A beat ASU but lost to USC.

In some years, 2 losses might rule us out, depending on how other teams fared and on the PSC's own predilections and biases.